7 ; | | Jodoin hits profiteering Last week Claude Jodoin, pres- ident of the Canadian Labor Congress, issued the foliowing state- ment in St. Catherines, Ontario: Canadian consumers are being victimized by one of the greatest exercises in profiteering in the country’s history, A high pres- sure campaign of misleading in- formation about food prices is Sweeping the country anda recent Statement by the Ontario Hog Producers* Association indicates - that some farmers are allowing themselves to beconie a party to this type of propaganda. Since the first of the year the consumers’ index of food prices has risen by just 5.3 percent, Some officials of the Hog Pro- ducers’ Association are now forecasting a price of $1.90 a bound for steak, an increase of 40 percent over present prices, This prediction is apparently We buy and sell Used Furniture Sporting Goods. We are Reasonable We are at 573 E. HASTINGS ST. Beaver Transfer 254-3711 A. SMITH Expert Watch & Jewelry Repairs Special Discount to. Tribune Readers Phone 263-5661 {—TED HARRIS based on wage increases which have not yet taken place, At the same time some sources are at- tempting to use the wage in- creases recently won by railway workers as an excuse for totally unwarranted price increases, As far as meat prices are concerned the fact is that the cost of labor for processing meats amounts to only 10 or 11 percent of the selling price. The packing companies are nowrap- idly introducing machines which will bring the unit cost of labor down still further, The average wage under union contracts in the Canadian meat packing in- dustry is $2.32 an hour which can- not in any way be regarded as exorbitant under today’s condi- tions, The president of Swift Com--: pany recently made public. fig- ures showing that the company now has only 49,000 employees in the United States and Canada, compared with 78,000 ten years ago. 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The farmers were receiving less and the consumers were being charged more as the re- sult of an ‘‘all the traffic will bear*” policy by those who are in a position to manipulate prices. There has seldom been such an obvious example of profiteer- ing as the situation which now exists with regard to food prices. campaign against rising prices A nation-wide campaign against high prices is being laun- ched by the Pacific Tribune and Canadian Tribune to coincide with the opening of Parliament, Special material is being pre- pared by the Canadian Tribune, which will be supplemented by B.C, material, and will appear in the first 12 page edition of the PT on October 14, This will be the first issue under the new arrangement with the Canadian Tribune announced last week, Included in the material will be a petition calling for the /DUNDAS SERVICE B-A (WALL & DUNDAS ST.) Complete Auto Repair and Service for All Makes ‘Government Certified Mechanic and Vv. W. 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